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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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2. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Audience
Aside
Character
Exposition
3. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Imagery
Parable
Falling Action
Stanza
4. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Analogy
Denotation
Dactyl
Personification
5. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Catharsis
Theme
Allusion
Lyric Poem
6. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Denouement
Alliteration
Cliche
Analogy
7. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Act
Image
Setting
8. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
Exposition
Myth
Scenes
9. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Subplot
Foot
Conflict
Act
10. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Catharsis
Analogy
Epiphany
Myth
11. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Enjambment
Conceit
Foot
Oxymoron
12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Understatement
Closed Form
Meter
13. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Hyperbole
Epiphany
Symbol
Theme
14. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Aubade
Pyrrhic
Rhythm
Apostrophe
15. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Subplot
Characterization
Comic Relief
Point of View
16. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Situational Irony
Trochee
Subject
Denotation
17. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Enjambment
Audience
Figurative Language
18. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Mood
Syntax
Folklore
Sestet
19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Cliche
Flashback
Foreshadowing
20. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Catharsis
Anapest
Ballad
Synecdoche
21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Symbolism
Scenes
Couplet
22. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Complication
Connotation
Personification
23. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Exposition
Motif
Convention
Epic
24. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Understatement
Epiphany
25. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Allusion
Aphorism
Rising Action
Subject
26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Stereotype
Figurative Language
Setting
27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Villanelle
Pyrrhic
Conflict
28. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Analogy
Plot
Foil
Parallelism
29. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Anapest
Parallelism
Analogy
30. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Metaphor
Imagery
Apostrophe
Narrative Poem
31. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Spondee
Allusion
Connotation
Cliche
32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Recognition
Reversal
Connotation
Complication
33. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Sestet
Foot
Ballad
Catharsis
34. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Rhyme
Characterization
Voice
Narrative Poem
35. A poem that tells a story.
Diction
Act
Narrative Poem
Image
36. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Nonfiction
Flashback
Anapest
37. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Fiction
Parallelism
Denouement
38. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Catharsis
Metaphor
Caesura
Point of View
39. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Subject
Recognition
Lyric Poem
Free Verse
40. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
External Conflict
Plot
Protagonist
Dialogue
41. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
1st Person
Symbol
Foot
Paradox
42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denouement
Exposition
Couplet
Plot
43. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Rhyme
Falling Action
Legend
Internal Conflict
44. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Conceit
Metaphor
Epic
45. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dactyl
Climax
Parody
Lyric Poem
46. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Stereotype
Epigram
Understatement
Comic Relief
47. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
3rd Person (Limited)
Oxymoron
Myth
Sonnet
48. A strong pause within a line.
Audience
Caesura
Octave
Closed Form
49. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Dialogue
Catharsis
Characterization
Sestet
50. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Analogy
Allusion
Alliteration
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